FinMath UChicago vs. CompFin UCL vs. Stats Imperial?

I have offers to do masters degrees at 

  • UChicago, Financial Mathematics

  • UCL, Computational Finance

  • Imperial, Statistics (Finance)

  • Georgia Tech, Computational Finance


Does anyone have any thoughts or comparisons of the different degrees? I have experience at 2 trading companies (semi-prop shop/asset manager) as a trader/quant. I have no interest is IB, want to work at either a prop shop or HF


My current ranking is Chicago > Imperial > UCL > GTech. Thoughts?

 

Chicago and Imperial are going to be by far your best options, and have similar outcomes and reputations in their regions and globally, although would maybe say FinMath is a stronger course/perceived as more rigorous than Stats? Would make your decision based on where you want to be really, and noting that it’s probably harder to go UK > US than US > UK.

 

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